primaries vs election and why primaries matter or not.
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Primaries are one way in which a party can choose its nominees. There are others (local party committees caucus, state conventions), but ultimately so long as a party can meet the threshold (usually signatures) to get on the ballot it can choose its nominees in whatever way it wants to, including reading chicken entrails or holding a seance.
An interesting variation on primaries is the ranked choice jungle primary where all candidates run together and the top two (as in California) or four (as in Alaska which also has ranked choice voting) advance to the general election.
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